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This fabulous lit quiz is copied from Facebook:


1) What author do you own the most books by? Dickens

2) What book do you own the most copies of? Hmmm, could be Pride and Prejudice, could be Great Expectations

3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions? YES! So much so that I almost edited the post.

4) What fictional character...
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Libertine.


I have not died.
Though I did die with our life.

Your skin hurts me,
Mercury,
where it touches your new wife.

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It is three days from the day
I first knew I would love you.

We twined the sheets,
We shared regrets,
Spring was green and lenient,
And we were so enormous,
you thought yourself well.

But hell came to call, an...
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"An Old Man Checked Me Out While I Was Running Yesterday"

I am eighty years old.
my eyes
are two great folds,
my hands shake,
my skin is pruned,
my legs ache
shuffle and limp,
as do my bowels
despite my steady diet
of Musellix.

and my penis is a shrivelled spout
on the face of my hips.

my nose drips.
my eyes water.

and...
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(this was a blooper)

"Flora, Fauna"


my bones
are made of sticks and stones.
my flesh is dirt
my heart, pinecones.
all these years
I've grown up, and up
alone
with my ceiling stars,
with my tree-trunk scars.

I've had no family until you
my pirate, my lush,
introduced me
to your humanity,
while we tumbled
together
in the underbrush.
we could be happy
the two of us,

were...
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"The David Bowie Reclamation Mission"

The fluctuation
between agony & ecstasy,
it's nothing new.
but it's over for me, for now,
I'm through.
and I was wrong when
I said bodies aren't
interchangeable:
almost any body will do
not for love
but to accomplish those feats
that bodies wish to accomplish.
this body's sweet
and finely constructed
he tastes like rain
at the lips.
rolls...
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